ED54B:
Make It More Simple: The Up-Goer Five Giving-It-a-Try (aka Challenge)


Session ID#: 8250

Session Description:
We ask anyone studying the world and/or space to explain what they study using only the ten hundred most used words. This is a great chance to speak about important work as simply as possible—without losing its meaning.  (This paragraph written using the “Up-Goer Five Text Editor.”)

Inspired by the XKCD comic in which the author describes the Saturn V Rocket using only the thousand most common words in English (http://xkcd.com/1133/), we ask speakers to present very short (5-minute) scientific talks using only a limited vocabulary (as determined via the Up-Goer Five Text Editor: http://splasho.com/upgoer5). This is not intended flippantly, but as a fun, sincere exercise in distilling critical information to its essence, an invaluable skill in communicating to both scientific and public audiences. We hope that these talks will serve as inspiration and points of discussion for rendering technical and complex language into its most fundamental parts.

Primary Convener:  Peter L Weiss, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Olivia Ambrogio, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States and Mary Catherine Adams, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Mary Catherine Adams, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States and Elizabeth A Landau, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Olivia Ambrogio, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Building Blocks of Life Move from Ground to Tree to Animal and Back to Ground (Invited) (63567)
Eric A Davidson, University of Maryland Center (UMCES) for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD, United States
Studies of Places on Our Home Ground Where We Find Life That Might Be Like Places Life Could Be On Other Worlds (Invited) (85114)
Jennifer G Blank, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States
What's under the long line of heavy rocks? Waves can tell us. (Seismic tomography of the lithosphere below the Midcontinent Rift) (73290)
Emily Wolin, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States
Old flying ice-rock body in space allows a glance at its inner working. (80580)
Andre Michel Bieler, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Rocks usually shake when they break, but sometimes they don't (Seismic and aseismic slip of oceanic strike-slip earthquakes) (86681)
Kasey Aderhold, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Seattle, WA, United States
First Thoughts About Being Outside In The Very Cold Land: Did We Get Rocks That Will Let Us Study How Warm And Wet It Was In The Past? (85155)
Kelsey Winsor, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Environmental, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Lowell, MA, United States and Kate M Swanger, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, United States
Space to ground talking through small different areas in the top part of the air where the space-house flies. (73151)
Thomas Heine, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Sense Things in the Big Deep Water Bring the Big Deep Water to Computers so People can understand the Deep Water all the Time without getting wet (84836)
Martin Heesemann1, Monika S. Pelz2, Martin Scherwath1, Dwight Owens3, Maia Hoeberechts3 and Kate Moran2, (1)University of Victoria, Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, (2)Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, (3)Ocean Networks Canada, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Five Ways to Try if our Believe about the Truth is Right, That you can Do using Stuff you have at Home, done in five minutes. (81252)
Rolf Hut, Delft University of Technology, Water Management, Delft, Netherlands
Water making hot rocks soft: How hydrothermal alteration affects volcano stability (63721)
Jessica L Ball, USGS Western Regional Offices Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States

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